The number of households suffering from ‘fuel stress’ is set to treble overnight to 6.3 million households when the new energy price cap comes into effect.

Despite the rhetoric, the UK is more regionally divided than ever and that central government policy has so far undermined the levelling up agenda.

New measures will see owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets forced to pay.

CPRE research has shown a 1,000 per cent increase in short-term lets nationally over the last six years, with most in rural staycation hotspots.

Community Vaccine Champions will be tapping into their local networks and encouraging people in their community to come forward and get vaccinated.

Ill health n England’s most deprived neighbourhoods is costing an estimated £29.8 billion a year to the economy in lost productivity.

Proposals for Manchester City Council to buy its own solar farm to help cut its carbon emissions are set to move forward.

Leaseholders could find it easier and cheaper to buy the freehold of their building under new proposals to create a fairer housing system.

More than half of UK firms believe their IT systems have been left more exposed to attack following the huge increase in people working from home.

Communities have been selected for two pilot schemes aimed at encouraging more people in urban and deprived areas to engage in the planning system.

The IFS has said that councils’ finances held up much better during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, 2020–21, than previously thought.

Rebecca Pow has launched a consultation that sets out plans to ensure wildlife can be better protected and enhanced in developments.

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